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your parenting brain:
how to nurture calm, confidence and connection from pregnancy and beyond
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making sense of the transition to parenthood

Becoming a parent changes everything: your routines, your relationships, even your brain. Understanding these changes can make the transition easier.

Whether you’re expecting or already caring for your baby, it’s normal to feel emotional highs, uncertainty, or moments of self-doubt.

This free guide shows you how to work with your parenting brain to feel calmer, more confident, and more connected every day.

Inside, you’ll learn how to:
  • Reset stress with small, realistic tools that calm your nervous system.

  • Build confidence by understanding what’s really happening in your brain and body.

  • Strengthen your bond with your baby through everyday connection.

  • Support yourself with gentle, science-backed habits that fit into real life.

your weekly moment to pause

Practical, science-informed insights to help you manage stress and support emotional wellbeing.

Gentle coaching reflections to quiet the inner critic and build self-trust.

Simple lifestyle tools for sleep, rest, nutrition, and daily balance.

When you download your free guide, you’ll also join The New Life Pause, short, weekly, science-backed insights to help you find calm and confidence in everyday parenting.

Each edition includes:

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Connection & compassion — reminders that progress isn’t perfection, and calm is something you can cultivate.

No pressure, no spam — just grounded guidance to help you breathe a little easier each week

a note from Iona

I’m a UKIHCA-registered health coach and parental brain educator with a background in psychology and over eight years’ experience supporting 8,000+ parents through the mental, emotional, and physical transitions of early parenthood.

My work blends neuroscience with compassionate coaching to help parents feel calmer, more confident, and more connected — both to themselves and their babies.

Because you deserve to enjoy this new chapter, not just survive it.

start feeling calmer and more confident today

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